Description
OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2015.1.3 (kilo) and 12.0.x before 12.0.1 (liberty), when using libvirt to spawn instances and use_cow_images is set to false, allow remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files by overwriting an instance disk with a crafted image and requesting a snapshot.
Published: 2016-01-12
Score: 3.5 Low
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2015-7462 OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2015.1.3 (kilo) and 12.0.x before 12.0.1 (liberty), when using libvirt to spawn instances and use_cow_images is set to false, allow remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files by overwriting an instance disk with a crafted image and requesting a snapshot.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3449-1 OpenStack Nova vulnerabilities
History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T07:51:28.584Z

Reserved: 2015-09-29T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2015-7548

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2016-01-12T19:59:06.017

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2015-7548

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2016-01-07T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-7548 - Bugzilla

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